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subject	book bibliographic info
firstborn	Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 48, 49, 55, 58, 59, 73, 94, 133, 161, 166, 183, 184, 185, 193, 230 Neis (2012), When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species. 64, 209, 213, 235, 244 Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 157, 160, 161, 162, 163, 166, 171, 205, 209 Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 94, 95
firstborn, in pauline epistles christ as	Peppard (2011), The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context, 139, 140, 171
firstborn, israel, as gods	Lieber (2014), A Vocabulary of Desire: The Song of Songs in the Early Synagogue, 152
firstborn, miscarriage, of	Neis (2012), When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species. 209
firstborn, of sheep and goats	Neis (2012), When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species. 209
firstborn, or johannine logos, son, image of	Heo (2023), Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages. 185, 186, 217, 224, 316
firstborn, redemption of son, as exception to rule	Alexander (2013), Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism. 128, 129
firstborn, redemption of son, covenantal function of	Alexander (2013), Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism. 187, 188
firstborn, redemption of son, women are exempt	Alexander (2013), Gender and Timebound Commandments in Judaism. 17
firstborn, son, ~	Langstaff, Stuckenbruck, and Tilly, (2022), The Lord’s Prayer, 103, 107, 108
firstborn, the	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 89
firstborn, the shavua, yeshua, of a son	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 82
firstborn, the, and the blessings	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 83, 85, 89
firstborn, the, and the kohen	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 70, 71, 72, 75, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 89
firstborn, the, and the sum of	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 89
firstborn, the, ceremony	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 83, 85, 89
firstborn, the, location of	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 70, 71
firstborn, the, methods of	Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81
firstborn, to a first son after conversion, inheritance, of a	Lavee (2017), The Rabbinic Conversion of Judaism The Unique Perspective of the Bavli on Conversion and the Construction of Jewish Identity, 165
firstborns	Balberg (2017), Blood for Thought: The Reinvention of Sacrifice in Early Rabbinic Literature, 56, 57, 98, 151

List of validated texts:

8 validated results for "firstborn"

1. Hebrew Bible, Genesis, 1.1 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Johannine Logos, firstborn (or son) image of • firstborn

Found in books: Heo (2023), Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages. 186; Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 157, 209

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1.1 בְּרֵאשִׁית בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ׃^1.1 וַיִּקְרָא אֱלֹהִים לַיַּבָּשָׁה אֶרֶץ וּלְמִקְוֵה הַמַּיִם קָרָא יַמִּים וַיַּרְא אֱלֹהִים כִּי־טוֹב׃ ' None

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1.1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.'' None

2. Hebrew Bible, Numbers, 3.45-3.46 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • firstborn • firstborn sons

Found in books: Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 55; Vargas (2021), Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time, 139

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3.45 קַח אֶת־הַלְוִיִּם תַּחַת כָּל־בְּכוֹר בִּבְנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאֶת־בֶּהֱמַת הַלְוִיִּם תַּחַת בְּהֶמְתָּם וְהָיוּ־לִי הַלְוִיִּם אֲנִי יְהוָה׃ ^3.46 וְאֵת פְּדוּיֵי הַשְּׁלֹשָׁה וְהַשִּׁבְעִים וְהַמָּאתָיִם הָעֹדְפִים עַל־הַלְוִיִּם מִבְּכוֹר בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל׃'' None

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3.45 ’Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be Mine, even the LORD’S. ^3.46 And as for the redemption of the two hundred and three score and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are over and above the number of the Levites,'' None

3. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 89.28 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • Johannine Logos, firstborn (or son) image of • Pauline Epistles Christ as firstborn in

Found in books: Heo (2023), Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages. 316; Peppard (2011), The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context, 139

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89.28 אַף־אָנִי בְּכוֹר אֶתְּנֵהוּ עֶלְיוֹן לְמַלְכֵי־אָרֶץ׃'' None

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89.28 I also will appoint him first-born, The highest of the kings of the earth.'' None

4. Hebrew Bible, Nehemiah, 10.33-10.34 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
Tagged with subjects: • firstborn • firstborn sons

Found in books: Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 133; Vargas (2021), Time’s Causal Power: Proclus and the Natural Theology of Time, 139

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10.33 וְהֶעֱמַדְנוּ עָלֵינוּ מִצְוֺת לָתֵת עָלֵינוּ שְׁלִשִׁית הַשֶּׁקֶל בַּשָּׁנָה לַעֲבֹדַת בֵּית אֱלֹהֵינוּ׃ ^10.34 לְלֶחֶם הַמַּעֲרֶכֶת וּמִנְחַת הַתָּמִיד וּלְעוֹלַת הַתָּמִיד הַשַּׁבָּתוֹת הֶחֳדָשִׁים לַמּוֹעֲדִים וְלַקֳּדָשִׁים וְלַחַטָּאוֹת לְכַפֵּר עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵל וְכֹל מְלֶאכֶת בֵּית־אֱלֹהֵינוּ׃'' None

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10.33 Also we made ordices for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; ^10.34 for the showbread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the appointed seasons, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.'' None

5. New Testament, Romans, 8.29 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Pauline Epistles Christ as firstborn in • firstborn

Found in books: Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 161; Peppard (2011), The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in its Social and Political Context, 139

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8.29 ὅτι οὓς προέγνω, καὶ προώρισεν συμμόρφους τῆς εἰκόνος τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, εἰς τὸ εἶναι αὐτὸν πρωτότοκον ἐν πολλοῖς ἀδελφοῖς·'' None

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8.29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. '' None

6. New Testament, John, 1.1-1.18, 5.31-5.40 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • Johannine Logos, firstborn (or son) image of • born, newborn, firstborn, second-born, • firstborn

Found in books: Heo (2023), Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages. 185, 186, 316; Novenson (2020), Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, 205, 209; Penniman (2017), Raised on Christian Milk: Food and the Formation of the Soul in Early Christianity, 94; Robbins et al. (2017), The Art of Visual Exegesis, 113, 114, 115, 119, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 148, 149, 151, 152, 154, 158, 159, 161, 162, 164, 165, 167

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1.1 ΕΝ ΑΡΧΗ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. ^1.2 Οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν. ^1.3 πάντα διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἕν. ^1.4 ὃ γέγονεν ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ^1.5 καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει, καὶ ἡ σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν. ^1.6 Ἐγένετο ἄνθρωπος ἀπεσταλμένος παρὰ θεοῦ, ὄνομα αὐτῷ Ἰωάνης· ^1.7 οὗτος ἦλθεν εἰς μαρτυρίαν, ἵνα μαρτυρήσῃ περὶ τοῦ φωτός, ἵνα πάντες πιστεύσωσιν διʼ αὐτοῦ. ^1.8 οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖνος τὸ φῶς, ἀλλʼ ἵνα μαρτυρήσῃ περὶ τοῦ φωτός. ^1.9 Ἦν τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινὸν ὃ φωτίζει πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον. ^1.10 ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἦν, καὶ ὁ κόσμος διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο, καὶ ὁ κόσμος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἔγνω. ^1.11 Εἰς τὰ ἴδια ἦλθεν, καὶ οἱ ἴδιοι αὐτὸν οὐ παρέλαβον. ^1.12 ὅσοι δὲ ἔλαβον αὐτόν, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς ἐξουσίαν τέκνα θεοῦ γενέσθαι, τοῖς πιστεύουσιν εἰς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ, ^1.13 οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος ἀνδρὸς ἀλλʼ ἐκ θεοῦ ἐγεννήθησαν. ^1.14 Καὶ ὁ λόγος σὰρξ ἐγένετο καὶ ἐσκήνωσεν ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐθεασάμεθα τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, δόξαν ὡς μονογενοῦς παρὰ πατρός, πλήρης χάριτος καὶ ἀληθείας·?̔ ^1.15 Ἰωάνης μαρτυρεῖ περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ κέκραγεν λέγων — οὗτος ἦν ὁ εἰπών — Ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν, ὅτι πρῶτός μου ἦν·̓ ^1.16 ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ πληρώματος αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς πάντες ἐλάβομεν, καὶ χάριν ἀντὶ χάριτος· ^1.17 ὅτι ὁ νόμος διὰ Μωυσέως ἐδόθη, ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐγένετο. ^1.18 θεὸν οὐδεὶς ἑώρακεν πώποτε· μονογενὴς θεὸς ὁ ὢν εἰς τὸν κόλπον τοῦ πατρὸς ἐκεῖνος ἐξηγήσατο. ^5.31 Ἐὰν ἐγὼ μαρτυρῶ περὶ ἐμαυτοῦ, ἡ μαρτυρία μου οὐκ ἔστιν ἀληθής· ^5.32 ἄλλος ἐστὶν ὁ μαρτυρῶν περὶ ἐμοῦ, καὶ οἶδα ὅτι ἀληθής ἐστιν ἡ μαρτυρία ἣν μαρτυρεῖ περὶ ἐμοῦ. ^5.33 ὑμεῖς ἀπεστάλκατε πρὸς Ἰωάνην, καὶ μεμαρτύρηκε τῇ ἀληθείᾳ· ^5.34 ἐγὼ δὲ οὐ παρὰ ἀνθρώπου τὴν μαρτυρίαν λαμβάνω, ἀλλὰ ταῦτα λέγω ἵνα ὑμεῖς σωθῆτε. ^5.35 ἐκεῖνος ἦν ὁ λύχνος ὁ καιόμενος καὶ φαίνων, ὑμεῖς δὲ ἠθελήσατε ἀγαλλιαθῆναι πρὸς ὥραν ἐν τῷ φωτὶ αὐτοῦ· ^5.36 ἐγὼ δὲ ἔχω τὴν μαρτυρίαν μείζω τοῦ Ἰωάνου, τὰ γὰρ ἔργα ἃ δέδωκέν μοι ὁ πατὴρ ἵνα τελειώσω αὐτά, αὐτὰ τὰ ἔργα ἃ ποιῶ, μαρτυρεῖ περὶ ἐμοῦ ὅτι ὁ πατήρ με ἀπέσταλκεν, ^5.37 καὶ ὁ πέμψας με πατὴρ ἐκεῖνος μεμαρτύρηκεν περὶ ἐμοῦ. οὔτε φωνὴν αὐτοῦ πώποτε ἀκηκόατε οὔτε εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἑωράκατε, ^5.38 καὶ τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἔχετε ἐν ὑμῖν μένοντα, ὅτι ὃν ἀπέστειλεν ἐκεῖνος τούτῳ ὑμεῖς οὐ πιστεύετε. ^5.39 ἐραυνᾶτε τὰς γραφάς, ὅτι ὑμεῖς δοκεῖτε ἐν αὐταῖς ζωὴν αἰώνιον ἔχειν· καὶ ἐκεῖναί εἰσιν αἱ μαρτυροῦσαι περὶ ἐμοῦ· ^5.40 καὶ οὐ θέλετε ἐλθεῖν πρός με ἵνα ζωὴν ἔχητε.' ' None

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1.1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ^1.2 The same was in the beginning with God. ^1.3 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made. ^1.4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. ' "^1.5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it. " '^1.6 There came a man, sent from God, whose name was John. ^1.7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him. ^1.8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light. ^1.9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world. ' "^1.10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn't recognize him. " "^1.11 He came to his own, and those who were his own didn't receive him. " "^1.12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name: " ^1.13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. ^1.14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. ^1.15 John testified about him. He cried out, saying, "This was he of whom I said, \'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.\'" ^1.16 From his fullness we all received grace upon grace. ^1.17 For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. ^1.18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him. ^5.31 "If I testify about myself, my witness is not valid. ^5.32 It is another who testifies about me. I know that the testimony which he testifies about me is true. ^5.33 You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth. ^5.34 But the testimony which I receive is not from man. However, I say these things that you may be saved. ^5.35 He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ^5.36 But the testimony which I have is greater than that of John, for the works which the Father gave me to accomplish, the very works that I do, testify about me, that the Father has sent me. ^5.37 The Father himself, who sent me, has testified about me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form. ' "^5.38 You don't have his word living in you; because you don't believe him whom he sent. " '^5.39 "You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me. ^5.40 Yet you will not come to me, that you may have life. ' ' None

7. None, None, nan (1st cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • firstborn • the Firstborn • the Firstborn , and the kohen • the Firstborn , and the sum of • the Firstborn , methods of

Found in books: Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 166; Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 72, 73, 81

8. None, None, nan (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
Tagged with subjects: • firstborn • the Firstborn • the Firstborn , and the kohen • the Firstborn , and the sum of • the Firstborn , location of • the Firstborn , methods of

Found in books: Gordon (2020), Land and Temple: Field Sacralization and the Agrarian Priesthood of Second Temple Judaism, 193; Rubin (2008) Time and the Life Cycle in Talmud and Midrash: Socio-Anthropological Perspectives. 70

Please note: the results are produced through a computerized process which may frequently lead to errors, both in incorrect tagging and in other issues. Please use with caution.
Due to load times, full text fetching is currently attempted for validated results only.
Full texts for Hebrew Bible and rabbinic texts is kindly supplied by Sefaria; for Greek and Latin texts, by Perseus Scaife, for the Quran, by Tanzil.net

For a list of book indices included, see here.

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